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We got the PSA/warning at the beginning, which did of course mean that I spent the first half of the episode wondering which of the main S1 characters were going to try something.

IIRC, ‘Ricks place’ was only in the pilot episode. After that he was always the club manager.

I saw a topic for the new season but couldn't find it on my TV guide. Big sigh of relief when I realised it wasn't for another few weeks!

Just started reading The Country Girls by Edna O'Brien (the first book in the trilogy). It apparently caused ructions in Ireland when it was first published in the 60s. Banned by the censor, publicly burned by priests...I can't wait to get to the good stuff! A few chapters in and there's a definite 'feel' to the setting and imagery. In school we covered a lot of short stories written/set in the same time and there's just something very familiar about that era

Is there any way to get proper search results on Amazon video? Any time I try to search for a specific title, it throws up all these different answers, none of which seem to relate to the title in question. I mean, Netflix, if they don’t have that title will show other titles with words in common or maybe a different title with the same actor(s), but Amazon results just make no sense.

I once met somebody who had the exact same birthday (year and all) as mine. We even calculated that - given the different time zone we'd been born in - we were pretty much born within an hour of each other.

It's Casualty. When an actor leaves, there's pretty much a 50-50 chance that their character will be killed off.

Having watched the New Year's one off special, I really want them to get that same five back for a full season! https://www.imdb.com/title/tt13559956/?ref_=nm_flmg_slf_1

IIRC, when she appeared before, she was on her 3rd pregnancy and that's when they decided that she'd need a stitch put in. Presumably with the next 3 miscarriages she either didn't get the stitch put in in time, or it was in and didn't work.

Hearing Saru's voice coming out of Doug Jones face, that was just so damn weird!

Discovery isn't 900 years old. It's 5, 10, or however many years old it was when it went to the future. It's not like it's been flying around for 900 years and still functioning. Having a ship staying functioning for 100+ years of actually functioning is a whole different ball game.

This episode aired over here last week, and yes, the damn tune is rattling round my head! It's almost a year since it first aired. Anybody here still hearing that tune? 🙂

IMO, Gillian Anderson has got Margaret Thatcher down so well, that I'm probably going to have to watch some X-files as a palate cleanser to get her portrayal out of my mind (not a Thatcher fan). Diana didn't even look 18 at times, and it's just very creepy to think of a 30 something man taking an interest in her because he needs to marry somebody without a 'past'.

Yes, I have legit access to UK tv so I do know all about it and what they’re allowed broadcast after the watershed. I still think that Alex wasn’t expecting so many of those words to be used. The family friendly version broadcast on Sunday is going to be just one long continuous beep.

“Say as many words of four letters as you can” I really don’t think they thought that through properly! And well done to for using plurals as well!

https://www.q102.ie/news/buzz/derry-girls-star-siobhan-mcsweeney-to-host-news-series-of-popular-reality-tv-show/?fbclid=IwAR23L27geTwsXhxS51axFaHv8A2DuFEHRWdn7s6bpHcPFBMKP4peYY8hEoM Siobhan McSweeney (Sister Michael from Derry Girls) is taking over from Melanie Sykes. It’s almost a pity she won’t be hosting as her character!

Poor Linda, it just really wasn’t her week, was it? I think she’d have gotten away with making samosas rather than pasties if her other two challenges hadn’t gone so badly. Was it a lack of flour they said was the problem with her eclairs? At least as far as technicals go, pretty near everyone would likely have known what an eclair was supposed to look like.

@Clanstarling I’m pretty sure that after the baked Alaska fiasco that each contestant has an individual fridge and freezer to work with.

The Christmas specials always belong to the season that follows. i.e. the beginning of season 9. BBC usually air the Christmas special on or around Christmas and the next season starts a few weeks later in January.

Bagels are as Irish as St. Patty's day. That is to say, not at all because it's Patrick's or Paddy's, not Patty's.

My Digiguide listings are showing the new series starting on Channel 4 on Thursday the 15th October.

I don't think they showed that on the Channel 4 broadcast either.

It depends on the show. There’s a number of shows that air/aired on Netflix Ireland within a day or two of their USA network premiere. (Star Trek Discovery, The Good Place etc). If a UKshow is popular, there’s no reason they couldn’t have a similar arrangement in place.

To celebrate 25 years of Father Ted, An Post (the Irish postal service) is issuing commemorative stamps. https://www.thejournal.ie/an-post-father-ted-stamps-5188271-Aug2020/?utm_source=shortlink

Was she actually his mother though? I seem to remember (although my memory might be based on the novelizations) that Serina wasn't actually Boxey's mother, but that she found him on his own after the Cylon attack and helped get him a spot on the evacuation ships.